Head office location: Agglomeration, clusters or flow nodes?

Urban Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1517-1535

  Jakobsen, Stig Erik ^a   Onsager, Knut ^b  

^a Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; OFFICE LOCATION; URBAN ECONOMY;

ARMERIA;

EID: 25444462231     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980500185330     Document Type: Article

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